Consultant in Emergency Medicine

Job overview

Consultant in Emergency Medicine Permanent Full Time - 10 PA's

Applications are invited for an experienced specialist for the post of Consultant in Emergency Medicine to join our high performing Accident and Emergency Department. Successful applicant, experience permitting, may also be invited for an interview for the Clinical Director of Emergency Department upon the commencement of the post.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that flexible working policies are in place to promote a healthy work life balance. This enables the Trust to consider and support applications for flexible working such as term time, part time and job sharing.

Darent Valley Hospital is a busy, expanding district general hospital with excellent transport links to central London and Kent. Our ED offers a range of different facilities, including a paediatric ED, Ambulatory Emergency Care and GP streaming hub.

This post is offered on a full-time basis. The candidate should possess a CCT (or be within three months of obtaining), and should be listed on the Specialist Register at the time of taking up the post. Active participation in Research, Audit and Teaching is encouraged and supported. The candidate will need to demonstrate professional excellence and ability to deliver effective care.

Main duties of the job

Our Emergency Medicine Consultants pride themselves on providing a high quality and visible “shop floor” leadership presence, together with high standards of education, training, research and audit. The post holders will work in close co-operation with nursing, managerial and medical colleagues to provide high quality and timely healthcare to the Trust’s patients.

The Consultant will have responsibility for the efficient reception, resuscitation, diagnosis and management of all emergencies attending the department.

The Consultant will ensure that after the appropriate initial management, the patients are dispersed into hospital beds, specialist units, other hospitals, either local or regional, or to the main operating theatres as the case may be, in accordance with the Admissions Policy.

The Consultant will need to manage patients within the department’s boundary, including the short stay area adjacent to the emergency department, except where this is negotiated with the Clinical director

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post-holder will be responsible for the supervision and management of the middle grade ‘associates’, acute care common stem trainees, GP specialty trainees, foundation year 2 trainees and to support the clinical activities of the emergency nurse practitioners.

The Consultant will have shared responsibility for the proper functioning of the department and for ensuring that all attending patients receive timely and correct care and, where appropriate, be transferred to the necessary specialty team or discharged safely.

The post-holder will undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of attending patients and the smooth, efficient running of the clinical department. For purposes of management and use of resources the Consultant will be accountable to the Clinical Director and will ensure the effective and efficient use of resources allocated. You will provide prospective cover for colleagues on a mutually agreed basis in respect of absence from duty. You will be expected to co‐operate in the present agreed framework of the directorate management structure arrangements. The post holder undertakes to perform additional duties in occasional emergencies and unforeseen circumstances. The Consultant will be required to assist the trust management and its appointed agents during investigations into claims alleging medical negligence and, where requested, to provide related factual statements. You will be expected to have a role in developing and supporting the future strategy for Emergency Medicine services for the population served by the Emergency Department. This will involve close working with other trust departments and local CCGs and other partnering organisations outside the Trust